What wallpaper are you using right now?

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I download various images from Astronomy Picture of the Day and use them as backgrounds with various other things that I snarf. I used to have a different desktop per window but the window managers don’t seem to support that as nicely as they used to. I have wallpaper-tray rotate through them so I get something different whenever a desktop is free. Otherwise it rotates various images I have snarfed (the other big one is ICF ones that were done a while back.)

Does that help?

I am adding the pink ponies to my rotation so that I can send it to people who ask me for the impossible.

I normally use wallpapers from one of my three favorite wallpaper sources: InterfaceLIFT, KDE-Look.org or the Fedora Art Team…there’s lots of really cool wallpapers IMHO :) and there’s always something new if I need something different :)

Nice question! I also use wallpaper-tray to randomise my desktop wallpaper at each login – right now I’m looking at a panorama I stitched together using Hugin.

The picture is of the openplan workspace were I used to work. It has a nice feel for the space, and most people happened to be sitting still while I took the snaps, but there is one pair of disembodied feet walking towards the camera, and my manager is aiming a Nerf gun at me *8)

I’m currently using this wallpaper called LHBlissful.bmp. No idea where it originally came from; I received it via email after seeing it in a screenshot on DeviantArt and asking the poster where he got it from.

For F8 and F9 I stayed with the default wallpaper, but I can’t stand Solar due to a technical glitch (the sun does not look 3D, but like a circle with beveled edges, not sure if that was so since the beginning or was added in the clean-up process with the replacement of the moon photo).

So right now I use some self-made photos (close-up of dead roses on the desktop and fireworks on the laptop). But most of the time the wallpaper is covered by windows, so it does not really matter.

BTW, I saw this asked a few times and don’t know the answer myself: how can one change the GDM wallpaper so it fit the desktop wallpaper? you know, for a really smooth translation from GDM to desktop.

thanks, it was so intuitive that I feel bad now for not noticing the button before… well, not *that* bad since I am not the only who didn’t notice the button, Andreas Nilsson was asking the same thing in #fedora-art and nobody had an answer :p

I’ve attempted to contact the creator a couple times over the years since then asking for the source files or a significantly higher-resolution version (ideally with a much larger aspect ratio), but no dice. Even with the necessary stretching for my screen’s resolution and aspect ratio, however, I have always loved this background, especially for how little it distracts from the contents of the desktop. I was on a big Star Wars theming kick at the time I selected this, trying at least a dozen different backgrounds, even some truly garish ones derived from posters. Those backgrounds might have worked as posters, but they were too visually busy to work as a desktop background that shouldn’t distract from the icons on it. After much experimentation this was the only background I found that was Star Wars-functional yet not eye-catching, and I’ve stuck with it every since. I did try to use an Apple background in OS X once, but even with the better quality and fit for my screen, I had to go back to this one.

Re: Despite the small size/resolution for a 1440×900 screen, I’m still using a seven-year-old backgr

(By the way, that was Jeff Walden who posted the parent comment of this; I simply forgot to identify myself, as is my usual custom on blog posts whose comments don’t easily allow for structured self-identification.)

I made a big collage of various pictures of my two sons that spans my 1920×1200+1600×1200 dual monitor setup. I usually use pictures of them or other photos I’ve taken for wall papers on all my systems.

In response to your email (from the art team mailing list) and survey,
whereas I really do enjoy most of the default artwork created for
fedora, I usually change the theme and wallpapers almost immediately. Normally I either use photos or graphics I have created myself.

My current wallpaper selection(s) on F10 are derived from these shots:

Former windows user here.. I’ve been using the default wallpaper on every Fedora release. Funny, I cannot stand the default Windows wallpaper, and I’ve not found a better Fedora wallpaper. I think the artwork group does a phenomenal job.